Point Cloud Processing and Analysis with PDAL

Author:Howard Butler Author:Pete Gadomski Author:Dr. Craig Glennie Contact:howard@hobu.co Date:03/30/2016

• Introduction
  • Materials
    • Slides
    • Workshop Materials
    • USB Example Data Drive
• Introduction to LiDAR
  • Types of LiDAR
  • Modes of LiDAR Collection
  • Georeferencing
    • Integrating LiDAR and GNSS/IMU data
  • Discrete-Return vs. Full-Waveform
• Introduction to PDAL
  • What is PDAL?
    • What is its big idea?
    • How is it different than other tools?
    • Where did PDAL come from?
    • How is point cloud data different than raster or vector geo data?
    • What tasks are PDAL good at?
    • What are PDAL’s weak points?
  • High Level Overview
    • Core C++ Software Library
    • Command Line Utilities
    • Python API
  • Conclusion
• Software Installation
  • Docker
    • What is Docker?
    • How will we use Docker?
    • Installing Docker
    • Images and Containers
    • Conclusion
  • QGIS
    • What is QGIS?
    • How will we use QGIS?
    • Installing QGIS
    • Conclusion
• Exercises
  • Basic Information
    • Printing the first point
    • Printing file metadata
    • Searching near a point
  • Translation
    • Compression
    • Reprojection
  • Analysis
    • Finding the boundary
    • Clipping data with polygons
    • Colorizing points with imagery
    • Removing noise
    • Visualizing acquisition density
    • Thinning
    • Identifying ground
    • Generating a DTM
  • Georeferencing
    • Georeferencing